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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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High-Rider: This 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Is A 1970s Street Freak Time Capsule!

To be quite honest, I don’t get the difference between a “street machine” and a “street freak”, so I am probably going to jack this one up a little bit, so bear with...

So Plymouth Used Dune Buggies and Sand To Sell The 1970 Plymouth Fury? This Ad Is Weird and Awesome

In what has to be one of the weirdest car ads we have ever seen, this 1970 Plymouth Fury commercial places the massive car on sand dunes with dune buggies! We’re guessing that the idea here is...

Chevrolet Tahoe And Suburban RST: When The Family Wagon Needs To Haul Ass

(Photos: General Motors) The Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban are the go-to full-size SUVs in the market right now. Look left and right when you are out and about, and I’ll all but promise you that...

The Beast of Both Worlds: A Guy In His 20’s Built A BMW 2002 With The Heart And Bones Of A Honda S2000, And It’s Nuts!

(Photos by Kevin Adolf and Grassroots Motorsports Magazine Staff) Author’s Note: Recently, our buddies over at Grassroots Motorsports Magazine asked me if I’d like to help them out with...

This 1976 Jimmy CasaGrande Is An Amazingly Clean Survivor – We’d Cruise And Sleep In This One

(Thanks to Jay Spinella for the tip on this!) –  Back in the 1970s GM hooked up with a company called Chinook to produce a factory option that was known as the Blazer Chalet on Chevrolets and...

GM Is Unloading Some Of The “Toy Box” Cars At Barret-Jackson This Weekend! Take A Look At Some Of These Beauties!

Ever since I saw the first article about it, the GM “Toy Box” collection and subsequently appropriate concept and one-off vehicles has captured my attention. Summed up, it’s what GM...

2017 Carl Casper Car Show Coverage: Hot Rods, Baby! Our Favorites From The Event

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Rods, to me = traditional definition of a ‘street rod’ which is pre-1949 vehicles.  Now with the jargon defined lets delve into this array of rides...

This 1972 Ford LTD Is Near Perfection! Embrace The More Mature You The Right Way!

“You always have a hot rod, or some hopped-up beater. Even that Chrysler you have is a joke, it’s like you took Grandpa’s car and stuck NOS on it. You need to grow the **** up and...

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Looking For A Job In The Hot Rod Industry? McLeod Clutches Is Hiring!

If you have been looking to ditch your current job and bust your way into the high performance aftermarket, McLeod may have the opportunity that you are looking for. The company is growing and...

Cool Video: The Story Of Moving A 123-Ton Transformer Through England In 1962 – Measured For Transport

Moving big stuff is as interesting and challenging a job today as it was more than 50 years ago when this film was made. Human beings can create some pretty massive and heavy things and lots of times...

Cool Old Press Photos: Beauty and the Beast, the 1957 Lincolns

If there were ever two cars produced by the same brand in the same year that were on complete opposite ends of the styling and beauty spectrum, the 1957 offerings from Lincoln were them. Yes, the...

This 1965 TVR Griffith Has Drag Racing History And The Battle Scars To Prove It – Awesome Car

The TVR Griffith was yet another example of the melding of an English chassis and an American power plant in the 1960s. After the runaway success of the Shelby Cobra and following in the well worn...

With A Hint Of English Leather: This 1982 AMC Concord Sundancer Is A Classy Bandit!

Car people know Burt Reynolds. They know that he is probably responsible for selling more Pontiac Trans-Ams than GM’s marketing team was in the 1970s and early 1980s. They know that he could...

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Watch Mark Micke Drive Jason Carter’s Malibu To A Blazing 3.80/208mph Pass At Tulsa

Few cars in the world of small tire drag racing have the history and backstory of Jason Carter’s Malibu. In its latest iteration the car is a twin turbocharged big block Chevy powered monster...